On an unrelated note, I wonder what Sund4r makes of the Fernando Sor.
I've never played it but I just listened to a couple of versions while following the score and I kind of want to. This performance by Ana Vidovic is really good imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaEcDgxm8es . (Listen to the Segovia if you want shred but it doesn't connect with me the same way, although it could just be feelings of inadequacy speaking.)
When we get to the 1830s, Fantaisie Elegiaque would be a definite contender for me. I love the "Marche Funebre" (which I do play).
I generally find Sor satisfying in all his stodgy formalism. He didn't especially push the envelope compositionally but he wrote clear, well-crafted expressive music in the classical idiom that flows well on the instrument. He works well with the source material here imo and I do like how he uses triplets and sextuplets.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Friday, 8 November 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Anyway, I'm actually leaning towards "Erlkönig" atm.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Saturday, 9 November 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
Vidovic's performance is suitably unassuming, very much in keeping with Sor's classicism (which, incidentally, may be why I find his music enjoyable but overly guarded, as though La Folia had to be kept at bay).
I might just go with one of the Cello Sonatas – possibly my favourite works from the purgatorial period between his Middle and Late Styles (which I have likely just made up tbf).
― pomenitul, Sunday, 10 November 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
And if you're in a Paganini mood, Agustin Hadelich is a fucking terrific wild-eyed violonista.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 10 November 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Sor's music is totally restrained and guarded, yeah, which is part of its elegance for me.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Next decade is going to be utterly brutal, perhaps the most undecidable of all.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
on the one hand, sure, on the other hand, Freude, schöner Götterfunken...
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
How many poll options are we allowed again? I'm cutting an arm off every time I remove an entry from tomorrow's poll.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 14 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Hm!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 November 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
Turns out I wasn't the only one voting for 'Der Tod und das Mädchen'!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 November 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
I like these results. No one brought up the 7th Symphony in the comments, so I'm a little bit surprised, but it's an unfuckwithable pick.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link